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Yankeefied†
Slang, Obs.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Spelling variants:Yankified
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1aadj.
of things, so made as to be characteristic of the United States and its people.
Quotations
1788
Let Mr. Habitant bring his yankefied slays, and draw up the hills and down the hills of Canada. . . .
1827
To think of persons like us . . . launched out to Canada to raw pork, Yankified rum, and a soft bed of leaves. . . .
1963
Isabella (Bird) Bishop . . . found that the smart gals could hold up their end with the best of the men when it came to the Yankified jargon of table conversation . . . at an inn.
1badj.
of speech, so uttered as to suggest or characterize an American.
Quotations
1824
"Yea more, he declares, (not modestly, with an 'I suppose,' nor even with a mild Yankified 'I expect'). . . ."
1825
"Nor before it either, I calculate," snuffled a yankiefied voice from the corner.
1863
He [an Indian] answered when spoken to, not in Mohawk, or Cherokee, or Delaware, but in nasal Yankeefied English; nay, he seemed weakly garrulous.
2adj.
sympathetic to or in support of American ways, political attitudes, etc.
Quotations
1832
According to the doctrine of the Tories of Upper Canada, freedom of thought is treason--freedom of speech is rebellion--and liberty of forcing opinions and acting under them is becoming traitorous and yankefied.
1852
But from this folly the native-born Canadian is exempt; it is only practised by the low-born Yankee, or the Yankeefied British peasantry and mechanics.
1891
I am quite sure that the Reformers will not be Yankeefied by unrestricted reciprocity, and I hope the Conservatives will not be Yankeefied either by any such means.